Competition

Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I wrote a series of posts about how to get started in competitive shooting. As time went on, the information contained in those posts lost relevancy, and some of it was downright wrong anymore. The good news is that I’ve recently updated those posts. You can check them out here: Part 1 – How to Get Started in Competitive Shooting Part 2 – Holsters Part 3 – …

Saturday, March 8, 2014: GSSF at Caswell Ranch IDPA at H2O Fowl Farms ZSA Steel Challenge at The Range Sunday, March 9, 2014: GSSF at Caswell Ranch ZSA USPSA at ENC Firing Range IDPA at The Range Steel Challenge at Ant Hill Ben and I mentioned on episode 71 of the podcast that we might head down to H2O Fowl Farms, but that was before our friends at ZSA announced their new Steel Challenge match, …

John Z. from the Zombie Shooters Association let me know this morning that he has purchased a full set of steel challenge steel, and the ZSA has submitted the paperwork for an upgrade to be an official Steel Challenge club in addition to USPSA. Post by Zombie Shooters Association of America. This is great news, If you’ve been listening to the podcast for any length of time, it seems like whenever Steel Challenge gets brought …

After two years of cycling to shooting a 1911 during the winter months, I’m pretty much ready to say that Single Stack (CDP in IDPA) is the perfect off-season division for Production (SSP) shooters. The genesis of this pattern of changing guns around the time the leaves change comes from the simple fact that I’d finally picked up a 1911 in late 2012 and wanted to shoot it for a while. The main competition season …

Snooker is a game that is much more obviously about a good leave than 8-ball. By the same token, USPSA is a game much more obviously about speed than IDPA. But of course, in both sports, accuracy and speed (and power, DVC) are important. Let me back up for a second. After playing APA competitive 8-ball for a few months, I stumbled on snooker, another “cue sport” played with many more balls on the table …

Just an FYI, I was informed of the following: H2O Fowl Farms is postponing the IDPA Match on Saturday, and moving it to Feb. 22nd TPC 3-Gun at The Range is cancelled due to the weather ZSA 3-Gun at ENC is cancelled due to flooding on the range. If you know of any more matches being cancelled this weekend, please let me know by commenting on this post, or emailing [email protected]

In the past week I’ve received a couple of emails from podcast listeners who have recently tried competitive shooting for the first time. They both said they had a great time, and that’s really what it’s about. Todd wrote in first, and he had this to say about his first competitive shotgun “flurry” match. I’d never heard of a flurry, but it sounds like a LOT of fun (emphasis mine): The lessons I came away …

This week, on the podcast, Facebook, and blog, we’ve been extolling the virtues of dry fire for making you a more gooder shooter and overall raising your effectivitiness, but we would be remiss if we didn’t cover, at least in passing, the serious negative consequences of regular, focused dry fire. Sure spending a mere fifteen minutes a day with just you, the target, and the gun, and a holster, and a timer will be a …

The NC State Rifle Team finished first at the Citadel Invitational this past weekend. This is a type of rifle shooting that I really don’t have any experience with, but I’ve watched these students practice their shooting at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center in the past, and it’s an interesting discipline to watch. What’s even more cool about it is the fact that NCSU actually has a rifle team. How many state …

I spent most of the day today entering events into the Triangle Tactical Shooting Sports Calendar for 2014. In years past I’ve attempted to keep up with every action shooting type match in the state, but it was too much to try and keep up with, so this year instead of doing a mediocre job with the entire state, I decided to try and do a really good job with the greater Triangle area. I …